Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Hardly anyone in Hogansville is out of work
2% of workers work from home; Georgia has 16%. The two grades for Hogansville are B+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Only 5% work in Hogansville itself; outside it, LaGrange draws the most (16%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Hogansville: the gist
Jobs in Hogansville have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Hogansville went from 480 in 2014 to 1,022 in 2024, +113%. The jobs ↓
Few Hogansville workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 16% across Georgia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
46% of the jobs in Hogansville are in trade, transport and utilities, against 25% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Hogansville are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Georgia worker. Time on the road ↓
Many jobs in Hogansville pay little
26% of the jobs based in Hogansville pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 50% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Hogansville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hogansville is better than 67% of U.S. towns, #57 of 263 in Georgia. Unemployment holds Hogansville’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($62,620, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hogansville could be anywhere from B− to A−.
What work there is in Hogansville: 1,022 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hogansville, 2014 → 2024: 480 → 1,022. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hogansville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Hogansville: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hogansville workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,783 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Georgia: 84% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Who commutes out of Hogansville, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,417 residents head out to work, 75 work right here, and 947 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Hogansville on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.68 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Hogansville work
Where Hogansville clocks in
16% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The distance from Hogansville to work
About 22% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Hogansville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hogansville is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns, #84 of 263 in Georgia. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,812 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 10.2% of Hogansville households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hogansville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hogansville is 1,361st of 4,453 U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 96 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 262 | Ball Ground GA | 3,470 | $118K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 339 | Chattahoochee Hills GA | 3,524 | $112K | 1.1% | 3.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,359 | Leavenworth WA | 3,373 | $70K | 2.9% | 0.7% | 25% | B+ |
| 1,360 | Auburn Lake Trails CA | 3,284 | $134K | 6.9% | 3.5% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,361 | Hogansville GA | 3,290 | $63K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,362 | Hensley Township IN | 4,086 | $91K | 2.5% | 6.6% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,363 | Highland Falls NY | 3,631 | $111K | 7.2% | 6.6% | 9% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,453 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Hogansville, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Hogansville: questions
What is the median household income in Hogansville?
$62,620 (±$12,131) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hogansville?
5.7%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hogansville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hogansville work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are LaGrange (16%, 12 mi), Newnan (6%, 16 mi), Peachtree City (3%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hogansville walkable?
Hogansville is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hogansville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hogansville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hogansville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.